En stefar - deLillos

La meg fortelle om en mann

En som jeg kjente godt som barn

Han giftet seg med mor da jeg var fem

Og forsvant da jeg var ca.

ti

Og kanskje var det ikke meningen

Men jeg ble svært glad i han

Han var snill, sint og morsom og tykk

Og ble ganske lett fornærmet

Nå har det gått, så mange år

Har nesten glemt at han fikk magesår

Men jeg husker varmen i hans stemme

Som om jeg hørte den i går

Hvis jeg tok med meg venner hjem

Så kunne han spøke fælt med dem

Men jeg sa alltid klart ifra at han ikke var min far

Men jeg var stolt alikevel

Og til og med min fars familie

Kunne ikke la være å smile

Mor holdt kontakten med sin eksmanns slekt

Fordi den nye mannen passet inn perfekt

Nå har det gått så mange år

Har nesten glemt mors hjertesår

Da hun kom hjem og hørte et lydbånd

Der han sa «jeg går»

Så selv om du snek deg vekk fra oss

Har jeg nok alltid tenkt til tross

At jeg er takknemlig likevel

For at du gjorde min barndom spesiell

Jeg er takknemlig allikevel

For at du gjorde min barndom spesiell

Let me tell you about a man

One that I knew well as a child

He married my mother when I was five

And disappeared when I was approx.

ten

And maybe that was not the point

But I fell in love with him

He was kind, angry and funny and fat

And was quite easily offended

Now it has been so many years

Have almost forgotten that he got stomach ulcers

But I remember the warmth of his voice

As if I heard it yesterday

If I took friends home

Then he could joke badly with them

But I always made it clear that he was not my father

But I was proud anyway

And even my dad's family

Could not help but smile

Mother kept in touch with her ex-husband's family

Because the new man fit in perfectly

Now it has been so many years

Have almost forgotten my mother's heart wound

When she came home and heard a tape

Where he said "I go"

So even if you sneak away from us

I have probably always thought in spite

That I'm grateful anyway

Because you made my childhood special

I'm grateful anyway

Because you made my childhood special